We've had some problem with our 'good' tenants this week, which came as a real surprise as they've been good up until now. Its a strange situation that ended up with us giving them notice to move out. They got caught out in a lie which was designed to steal money from us. I don't want to say more than that but our agent is also pretty shocked at what they tried to do.
A sudden change in behaviour like this really concerns me but the one thing I will NOT tolerate is being lied to. And if they got away with it then thats theft - I don't have any time for thieves either. I'm not giving them a second chance as they cannot be trusted now. We've been very good landlords, always getting repairs done immediately, cutting them some slack when they had trouble paying the rent for a short period. No rent raises for several years. I'm annoyed that they thought they could take advantage of us when we've treated them very well.
We've owned this property for almost five years now and only had one weeks vacancy. This is our first tenant problem so we've been pretty fortunate. We will probably have a few weeks vacancy this time as we'll see if it needs painting or any other repairs etc once its empty.
This will also put a bit of a dent in the budget which will slow down the mortgage payoff next month. DH and I are looking forward to going back inside and having another good look. We've only actually been inside twice. We inspected it and made an offer to buy it and it was leased straight away. We went back to see it again in between tenants so thats about four years ago. I'm looking forward to seeing it again - its where we will move to when we sell up here.
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